Thoughts on Education Policy

Sorry for my sudden disappearance -- I've been off trying to deal with more important issues. The NY Times ran an article this morning ...

I previously asserted that the largest reason for the failures at my school was not anything in the school but, rather, what took place at ...

A new report out today from the Fordham Institute apparently describes how the bottom 10 percent of students have made more progress this c...

The Wall St. Journal has an editorial today extolling the virtues of Teach For America. I think TFA does far more good than harm, but I ca...

The National Center for Education Evaluation released a report on the D.C. Opportunity Scholars (voucher) program yesterday. The short vers...

I've already posted my thoughts on what's wrong with education policy once, but I feel this is important enough to bring up again. ...

When newspaper columnists want to take a day off they write a "notes column" -- a pseudonym for throwing together a bunch of rando...

The blog world seems to be obsessed with the report released yesterday by EPI. I've read too many posts on the topic to cite them all....

Despite my hesitance, my first edition of Blog Posts In Need of Improvement was a rousing success -- it remains my most-viewed post. I...

Kevin Carey weighed in last night with some advice for ed researchers . Liam Julian heartily agreed today in Fordham's blog. You can r...